April 29, 201610 yr My internet connection went down for a few minutes (thanks BT!), did number 11 by Meghan Trainor get played? no ~ skipped
April 29, 201610 yr 08 07 12 Alan Walker Faded - http://a1.mzstatic.com/eu/r30/Music69/v4/e6/52/ca/e652caf9-5769-cc74-ec37-d80e3b960505/cover170x170.jpeg Chart Run: 91-58-48-40-33-21-18-18-11-7-8-7-8 Release date: 04-12-2015 Format: digital single Label: IMER Musikk Chart sales: 300k+ Sales only chart peak: 7 Streaming only chart peak: 10 Video here: 60ItHLz5WEA Biography Alan Walker (born 24 August 1997 in Northampton, England) is a Norwegian producer who released his first official single in 2014—the melodic electro house track "Fade" that became a huge hit in a vocal version titled "Faded". - Wikipedia Chart history - Top 100 (Year peak title): 2016 07 Faded -NAS- Discussion Thread Here
April 29, 201610 yr 'Purple Rain' officially re-peaks this week then :D great to see 'Faded' in the top 10 still too :music:
April 29, 201610 yr Happy that No is still not Top 10, even if it is snooze fest 7 Years keeping it out. Still LOVE Faded.
April 29, 201610 yr No, it was skipped. :(I thought it would be skipped. Are you the same highlander that also posts at digitalspy in the Top Of The Pops 1981 thread. If so, hi!
April 29, 201610 yr I thought it would be skipped. Are you the same highlander that also posts at digitalspy in the Top Of The Pops 1981 thread. If so, hi! Yep, that's me! Hi Robbie. :)
April 29, 201610 yr 07 06 17 Zara Larsson Lush Life - http://a4.mzstatic.com/eu/r30/Music7/v4/16/33/22/163322c0-5410-115d-a3b4-2e403bb20f15/cover170x170.jpeg Chart Run: 88-72-40-27-19-16-9-6-4-4-3-4-5-5-5-6-7 Release date: 15-01-2016 Format: digital single Label: Record Company TEN Chart sales: 600k+ Sales only chart peak: 3 Streaming only chart peak: 4 Video here: tD4HCZe-tew Biography A talented Swedish vocalist and songwriter with a penchant for crafting soulful electro-pop that falls somewhere between Rihanna, Lorde, and Robyn, Zara Maria Larsson first caught the public's eyes and ears in 2008 as the winner of the popular Swedish talent show Talang Sverige (the regional version of Got Talent). Born on December 16, 1997 in Stockholm, Larsson inked a deal with Ten Music Group after winning Talang, and issued her debut EP, Introducing, which featured the hit single "Uncover," in 2013. The song was certified triple platinum in her home country, and after another EP, Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself, Larsson began work on her official debut long-player. The resulting 1 arrived in 2014 via Record Company Ten and Universal Music. Three additional singles reached the Swedish Top Ten: "She's Not Me," "Carry You Home," and "Rooftop." A pair of new singles for 2015 proved to be her international breakthrough; first "Lush Life" reached the Top Ten across Europe, then "Never Forget You" (featuring MNEK) hit the Top Ten in Great Britain. - iTunes Chart history - Top 100 (Year peak title): 2015 05 Never Forget You (MNEK & Zara Larsson) -1- 2016 03 Lush Life -2- 2016 05 Girls Like (Tinie Tempah Feat. Zara Larsson) Discussion Thread Here
April 29, 201610 yr Can't believe Purple Rain peaked only at #8 in the 80s. In fairness though it was the third Single from an Album that had all ready sold masses.
April 29, 201610 yr Surprising and welcome to see this last much longer in the top 10 than "Never Forget You"
April 29, 201610 yr 06 65 18 Prince & The Revolution Purple Rain Purple Rain | 1984 http://a4.mzstatic.com/eu/r30/Music/v4/b3/b5/b9/b3b5b92e-4863-3f13-ef7b-19ee6a23836c/cover170x170.jpeg Chart Run 1984: 25-16-8-10-14-21-33-43-69-xx Chart Run 2007: 90-xx Chart Run 2008: 76-xx Chart Run 2009: 62-xx Chart Run 2011: 100-xx Chart Run 2012: 91-xx Chart Run 2012: 75-91-xx Chart Run: 65-6 Release date: 1984 Format: digital single Label: NPG Records Chart sales: ? Sales only chart peak: 8 Streaming only chart peak: - Video here: Biography Few artists have created a body of work as rich and varied as Prince. During the '80s, he emerged as one of the most singular talents of the rock & roll era, capable of seamlessly tying together pop, funk, folk, and rock. Not only did he release a series of groundbreaking albums; he toured frequently, produced albums and wrote songs for many other artists, and recorded hundreds of songs that still lie unreleased in his vaults. With each album he released, Prince has shown remarkable stylistic growth and musical diversity, constantly experimenting with different sounds, textures, and genres. Occasionally, his music can be maddeningly inconsistent because of this eclecticism, but his experiments frequently succeed; no other contemporary artist can blend so many diverse styles into a cohesive whole. Prince's first two albums were solid, if unremarkable, late-'70s funk-pop. With 1980's Dirty Mind, he recorded his first masterpiece, a one-man tour de force of sex and music; it was hard funk, catchy Beatlesque melodies, sweet soul ballads, and rocking guitar pop, all at once. The follow-up, Controversy, was more of the same, but 1999 was brilliant. The album was a monster hit, selling over three million copies, but it was nothing compared to 1984's Purple Rain. Purple Rain made Prince a superstar; it eventually sold over ten million copies in the U.S. and spent 24 weeks at number one. Partially recorded with his touring band, the Revolution, the record featured the most pop-oriented music he has ever made. Instead of continuing in this accessible direction, he veered off into the bizarre psycho-psychedelia of Around the World in a Day, which nevertheless sold over two million copies. In 1986, he released the even stranger Parade, which was in its own way as ambitious and intricate as any art rock of the '60s; however, no art rock was ever grounded with a hit as brilliant as the spare funk of "Kiss." By 1987, Prince's ambitions were growing by leaps and bounds, resulting in the sprawling masterpiece Sign 'O' the Times. Prince was set to release the hard funk of The Black Album by the end of the year, yet he withdrew it just before its release, deciding it was too dark and immoral. Instead, he released the confused Lovesexy in 1988, which was a commercial disaster. With the soundtrack to 1989's Batman he returned to the top of the charts, even if the album was essentially a recap of everything he had done before. The following year he released Graffiti Bridge (the sequel to Purple Rain), which turned out to be a considerable commercial disappointment. In 1991, Prince formed the New Power Generation, the best and most versatile and talented band he has ever assembled. With their first album, Diamonds and Pearls, Prince reasserted his mastery of contemporary R&B; it was his biggest hit since 1985. The following year, he released his 12th album, which was titled with a cryptic symbol; in 1993, Prince legally changed his name to the symbol. In 1994, after becoming embroiled in contract disagreements with Warner Bros., he independently released the single "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," likely to illustrate what he would be capable of on his own; the song became his biggest hit in years. Later that summer, Warner released the somewhat halfhearted Come under the name of Prince; the record was a moderate success, going gold. In November 1994, as part of a contractual obligation, Prince agreed to the official release of The Black Album. In early 1995, he immersed himself in another legal battle with Warner, proclaiming himself a slave and refusing to deliver his new record, The Gold Experience, for release. By the end of the summer, a fed-up Warner had negotiated a compromise that guaranteed the album's release, plus one final record for the label. The Gold Experience was issued in the fall; although it received good reviews and was following a smash single, it failed to catch fire commercially. In the summer of 1996, Prince released Chaos & Disorder, which freed him to become an independent artist. Setting up his own label, NPG (which was distributed by EMI), he resurfaced later that same year with the three-disc Emancipation, which was designed as a magnum opus that would spin off singles for several years and be supported with several tours. However, even his devoted cult following needed considerable time to digest such an enormous compilation of songs. Once it was clear that Emancipation wasn't the commercial blockbuster he hoped it would be, Prince assembled a long-awaited collection of outtakes and unreleased material called Crystal Ball in 1998. With Crystal Ball, Prince discovered that it's much more difficult to get records to an audience than it seems; some fans who pre-ordered their copies through Prince's website (from which a bonus fifth disc was included) didn't receive them until months after the set began appearing in stores. Prince then released a new one-man album, New Power Soul, just three months after Crystal Ball; even though it was his most straightforward album since Diamonds and Pearls, it didn't do well on the charts, partly because many listeners didn't realize it had been released. A year later, with "1999" predictably an end-of-the-millennium anthem, Prince issued the remix collection 1999 (The New Master). A collection of Warner Bros.-era leftovers, Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale, followed that summer, and in the fall Prince returned on Arista with the all-star Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic. In the fall of 2001 he released the controversial Rainbow Children, a jazz-infused circus of sound trumpeting his conversion to the Jehovah's Witnesses that left many longtime fans out in the cold. He further isolated himself with 2003's N.E.W.S., a four-song set of instrumental jams that sounded a lot more fun to play than to listen to. Prince rebounded in 2003 with the chart-topping Musicology, a return to form that found the artist back in the Top Ten, even garnering a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2005. In early 2006 he was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, performing two songs with a new protégée, R&B singer Tamar. A four-song appearance at the Brit Awards with Wendy, Lisa, and Sheila E. followed. Both appearances previewed tracks from 3121, which hit number one on the album charts soon after its release in March 2006. Planet Earth followed in 2007, featuring contributions from Wendy and Lisa. In the U.K., copies were cover-mounted on the July 15 edition of The Mail on Sunday, provoking Columbia — the worldwide distributor for the release — to refuse distribution throughout the U.K. In the U.S., the album was issued on July 24. LotusFlow3r, a three-disc set, came in 2009, featuring a trio of distinct albums: LotusFlow3r itself (a guitar showcase), MPLSound (a throwback to his '80s funk output), and Elixer (a smooth contemporary R&B album featuring the breathy vocals of Bria Valente). Despite only being available online and through one big-box retailer, the set debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart. A year later, another throwback-flavored effort, 20Ten, became his second U.K. newspaper giveaway. No official online edition of the album was made available. From mid-2010 through the end of 2012, Prince toured throughout Europe, America, Europe again, Canada, and Australia. During 2013, Prince released several singles, starting with "Screwdriver" and continuing with "Breakfast Can Wait" in the summer of that year. Early in 2014, he made a cameo appearance on the Zooey Deschanel sitcom The New Girl, appearing in the episode that aired following the Super Bowl. All this activity was prelude to the spring announcement that he had re-signed to Warner Bros. Records, the label he had feuded with 20 years prior. As part of the deal, he wound up receiving the ownership of his master recordings and the label planned a reissue campaign that would begin with an expanded reissue of Purple Rain roughly timed to celebrate its 30th anniversary. First came two new albums: Art Official Age and PlectrumElectrum, the latter credited to 3rdEyeGirl, the all-female power trio that was his new-millennial backing band. Both records came out on the same September day in 2014. Almost a year to the date, he released HITNRUN Phase One, with contributions from Lianne La Havas, Judith Hill, and Rita Ora. - iTunes Chart history - Top 100 (Year peak title): 1980 41 I Wanna Be Your Lover -1- 1983 10 1999 -1- 1983 54 Little Red Corvette -2- 1984 04 When Doves Cry -1- 1984 06 Purple Rain (Prince & The Revolution) -2- 1984 58 I Would Die 4 U (Prince & The Revolution) -3- 1985 02 1999 / Little Red Corvette 1985 07 Let's Go Crazy / Take Me With U (Prince & The Revolution) -4- 1985 18 Paisley Park (Prince & The Revolution) -1- 1985 25 Raspberry Beret (Prince & The Revolution) -2- 1985 60 Pop Life (Prince & The Revolution) -3- 1986 06 Kiss (Prince & The Revolution) -1- 1986 45 Mountains (Prince & The Revolution) -2- 1986 11 Girls & Boys (Prince & The Revolution) -3- 1986 36 Anotherloverholenyohead (Prince & The Revolution) -4- 1987 10 Sign 'O' The Times -1- 1987 20 If I Was Your Girlfriend -2- 1987 11 U Got The Look -3- 1987 29 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man -4- 1988 09 Alphabet Street -1- 1988 29 Glam Slam -2- 1988 24 I Wish U Heaven -3- 1989 02 Batdance -1- 1989 14 Partyman -2- 1989 27 The Arms Of Orion (Prince With Sheena Easton) -3- 1990 07 Thieves In The Temple -1- 1990 26 New Power Generation -2- 1991 04 Gett Off (Prince & The New Power Generation) -1- 1991 15 Cream (Prince & The New Power Generation) -2- 1991 25 Diamonds And Pearls (Prince & The New Power Generation) -3- 1992 19 Money Don't Matter 2 Night (Prince & The New Power Generation) -4- 1992 28 Thunder (Prince & The New Power Generation) -5- 1992 04 Sexy M.F. / Strollin' (Prince & The New Power Generation) -1- 1992 07 My Name Is Prince (Prince & The New Power Generation) -2- 1992 51 My Name Is Prince (Remixes) (Prince & The New Power Generation) 1992 27 7 (Prince & The New Power Generation) -3- 1993 52 The Morning Papers (Prince & The New Power Generation) -4- 1993 14 Peach -1- 1993 05 Controversy -2- 1994 01 The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (as ) -1- 1994 18 The Beautiful Experience (as ) -EP- 1994 30 Letitgo -1- 1995 33 Purple Medley -NAS- 1995 20 Eye Hate U (as ) -2- 1995 10 Gold (as ) -3- 1996 36 Dinner With Delores (as ) -1- 1996 11 Betcha By Golly Wow! (as ) -1- 1997 19 The Holy River (as ) -2- 2000 65 The Greatest Romance Ever (as ) -1- 2004 43 Cinnamon Girl -1- 2006 43 Black Sweat -1- 2006 60 Fury -2- 2007 81 Guitar (Prince & The NPG) -1- 2014 90 PretzelBodyLogic (Prince & 3RDEYEGIRL) -1- R.I.P. Prince
April 29, 201610 yr Great to see "Purple Rain" get a new peak! Shame it missed out on the top 5 though.
April 29, 201610 yr Yay! Good to see Soft Cell at number 1 ;) Sure was. We won't see it's second week. Well not on BBC4 anyway!
April 29, 201610 yr I'm surprised to see "Formation" chart as low as it has. I expected it to be closer to "Hold Up" and still quite far ahead of the other tracks, I didn't think it had dropped that much. Anyway, very pleased to see her get those top 40 entries.
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